Dual caliper brakes?

deep1ca · Post by **deep1ca** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:42 pm

wtf?

NeonOn19s · Post by **NeonOn19s** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:27 pm

nice.... i want some.... too bad its a 4 lug.

jT · Post by jT » Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:36 pm

i watched an episode of How It's Made that had brake systems and the entire rotor was covered with calipers.. like 5 or 6 of them... thats some serious braking power that I would want..

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:17 pm

Those are for stupid people who like there tires nice and square.

Wenuden · Post by **Wenuden** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:59 pm

bone-yard-racing wrote:Those are for stupid people who like there tires nice and square.

dual calipers would be bad because? you can't make a statement like that and not explain lol. i'm assuming you're thinking that it would immediately lock up and cause flat spots all over the tires? that's what ABS is for.

jrumann59 · Post by **jrumann59** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:59 pm

My concern would be how they are valving the brake system and whether the bias gets screwed up.

on a side the car is running a decent rubber so this would appear to be more of show then function. I mean the logical choice to improve your barking after adding 17" rims is another caliper, would wouldn't first think about the tires Falken FK-451 are good tires but they aren't world betters.

Frizbe · Post by **Frizbe** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:03 am

I dunno about that one but on Z32(?) the emergency brake was a separate caliper on the rear.

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:47 am

Wenuden wrote:
bone-yard-racing wrote:Those are for stupid people who like there tires nice and square.
dual calipers would be bad because? you can't make a statement like that and not explain lol. i'm assuming you're thinking that it would immediately lock up and cause flat spots all over the tires? that's what ABS is for.

Nearly impossiable to modulate (god forbid anybody drives something without ABS ever again) You can lock brakes up that have ABS remember that ABS does not prevent you from locking the brakes but it releases them as soon as they may or may not be locked that is why a car with a regular braking system and a good dirver will stop better than the same car with ABS and a bad driver.

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:03 pm

That would be dumb if they didn't do the supporting work modifying the rear brakes and the master cylinder.

If they did, then they would have one hell of a brake system. Wouldn't be any worse than any other non-abs car as far as modulation goes.

Chibits12 · Post by **Chibits12** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:05 pm

Hopefully the rotors could withstand that amount of stresses during braking.

jrumann59 · Post by **jrumann59** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:36 am

Chibits12 wrote:Hopefully the rotors could withstand that amount of stresses during braking.

Though the rotors do look to be of a major manufacturer, I would have little faith that the cross drilling would hold up to the stress and would crack like fine china after you heated them up.

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:29 pm

^ Another good point

The answer to this question (like all questions in life) can be answered by F1 racing, how many calipers do they have?

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:44 pm

That is the E-brake caliper

OverDrive418 · Post by **OverDrive418** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:45 am

bone-yard-racing wrote:The answer to this question (like all questions in life) can be answered by F1 racing, how many calipers do they have?

http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules ... ions/5261/
http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules ... 1/fia.html
http://www.f1technical.net/articles/2

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:29 am

Bootlegger's brake on a dorifto car?

CA180 · Post by **CA180** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:37 pm

Frizbe wrote:I dunno about that one but on Z32(?) the emergency brake was a separate caliper on the rear.

Vipers too

jmr · Post by **jmr** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:59 pm

When DCX was doing the Sedan racing series with the Stratus in the late 90's they used a dual caliper setup along with a screamer 2.0 liter DOHC engine.